fortuitist (fortuitist)

One who holds the doctrine of fortuitism. [Rare.] There will always be teleologists, no doubt, and there will always be fortuitists , if we may coin a needful correl. ative term. fortuitous (for-tū'i-tus), a. [= F. fortuit = Sp. Pg. It. for tui to , fortuitus , casual, accidental, for ( t- )s, chance (ef. abl. forte , by chance): see fortune .] Accidental; casual; happening by chance; coming or occurring without any cause, or without any general cause; random. St. James's Gazette , April 14, 1881. fortuitous fo way Thus nature works as if to mock at art, And in defiance of her rival powers, By these fortuitous and random strokes Performing such inimitable feats 2345 tally; casually; by chance. The old stale pretence of the Atheists, that things were first made fortuitously , and afterwards their usefulne was observed or discovered, can have no place here. Ray, Works of Creation, ii. 416. Nothing befals them fortuitously , nothing happens in vain, or without a meaning. H. Blair, Works, V. v. fortuitousne (for-tū ́i-tus-nes), n. The quality or condition of being fortuitous; casual occurrence or causation. But what do these Theists here else then [than], whilst they deny the fortuitous motion of sensele matter to be the first original of all things, themselves in the meantime enthrone fortuitousne and contingency in the will Cudworth , Intellectual System, p. 873. of an omnipotent being?